Journey to the Center of the Earth

Maggie Dew, the geocacher who journeyed to the center and brought back photos, has planted a cache not far from the city at a '60s landmark called Peace Point:

Some friends and I had a little shop in downtown Coffeyville called the Hobbit Hole. We had a peace flag in the front window, and it wasn't long before someone decided to lob a brick through it. During the same period, some of my friends put up a huge peace symbol on a tall pipe on this bluff overlooking Coffeyville. It could be seen from quite a distance, and it was written up in the Coffeyville Journal. Again, in less than a week's time, someone cut it down. A piece of that pipe still sticks out of the ground today. Take a walk out to this viewpoint overlooking the town and contemplate why, to some, the concept of peace is such a fearful and loathsome thing.

The satellite photos on Google are prompting a lot of sightseeing, as I found while obsessing over Google Maps during the preparation of the story. My favorite discovery is the Palm Beach UFO.

Palm Beach County has a large population of elderly residents, bringing its median age up to 42. I don't want to reach a definitive conclusion until the subject's covered by Coast to Coast, but the high-altitude weather balloon theory is no fun at all. I'm thinking aliens came back to fetch more cocoons and have non-contact laser-light sex with Steve Guttenburg's rib cage.

Florida · Google · Movies · Wired News · 2006/02/22 · 3 COMMENTS · Link

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Ahh yes, google's satellite imagery is becoming the new way to waste time at work, replacing sites like hot or not!

On a side note, I read the Wired article yesterday and never looked at the author. Though I did notice your article today on Mr. Wayans. Curious, how often do you write for them, I have their RSS feed coming in on my "Waste time at work page" (right next to yours).

#1 · Bobrocks · 2006/02/23

The Google Maps and Damon Wayans piece are my first two articles for Wired News. I'm hoping to do more.

#2 · Rogers Cadenhead · 2006/02/23

Soooo... Geocaching is kinda like trainspotting for the technologically inclined?

At least ya get out of the house.

Be Well.

#3 · dethspud · 2006/02/27

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